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Jean Cocteau

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Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other avant-garde artists of his generation Cocteau grappled with the algebra of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde.. French writer

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Quote Left The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Quote Right
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Quote Left 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. Quote Right
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Quote Left The extreme limit of wisdom--that is what the public calls madness. Quote Right
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Quote Left A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. Quote Right
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Quote Left The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. Quote Right
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Book: Shattered Sighs