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“There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.”

Jean Cocteau quotes (French Poet, Novelist, Actor, Film Director and Painter, 1889-1963)

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“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, the finish by loading honors on your head.”

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“The poet doesn't invent. He listens.”

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“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.”

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“The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living”

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“Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.”

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“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”

Anais Nin quotes (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903-1977)

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“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”

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“When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.”

Jean Cocteau quotes (French Poet, Novelist, Actor, Film Director and Painter, 1889-1963)

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“Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.”

Jean Cocteau quotes (French Poet, Novelist, Actor, Film Director and Painter, 1889-1963)

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“I am a lie who always speaks the truth.”

Jean Cocteau quotes (French Poet, Novelist, Actor, Film Director and Painter, 1889-1963)

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