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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
— Jean Cocteau
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There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
— Jean Cocteau
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
— Jean Cocteau
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
— Jean Cocteau
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
— Jean Cocteau
Tags: us, habit, things, true
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
— Jean Cocteau
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