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- We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
- The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963), Les Enfants Terribles
- Art is science made clear.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
- The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
- The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963), Journey to Freedom (1969)
- We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
- I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
- The extreme limit of wisdom-- that is what the public calls madness.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
- The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
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