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Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

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Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far
— Jean Cocteau
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
— Jean Cocteau
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I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
— Jean Cocteau
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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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Being tactful in audacity is knowing how far one can go to far.
— Jean Cocteau
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