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Me Quotes by Jean Cocteau
- Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
- Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
- I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a…
- Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep…
- I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
- It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
- Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make…
- A little too much is just enough for me.
- I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love
- The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
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