Beard Quote by Jean Cocteau

“There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.”

Jean Cocteau

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

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I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.

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I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

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“Vivre est une chute horizontale”

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I expect a black silence that is almost as violent as laughter.

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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

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