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Jean Cocteau

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Biography - Jean Cocteau:

French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.
Born: 1889 - Died: 1963
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.


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Quotes for: habit


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Quotes for: habit


Custom is second nature.





The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.





While love may overcome death, it happens that a small, mean habit can overcome love.





Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.





Custom, then, is the great guide to human life.





Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.











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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.





Cinema is the form of modern writing whose ink is light.





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





Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far you can go too far.





The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.





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.












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