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Disavow anyone who provokes or accepts the extermination of a race to which he does not belong.

Jean Cocteau

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About Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, painter, and filmmaker.

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Alternative Names: Clément Eugène Jean Pierre Cocteau • Zhan Kokto • Eugène Jean Maurice Cocteau • Eugene Jean Maurice Cocteau

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Oscar Wilde Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich Nietzsche Tom Stoppard W. H. Auden

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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.

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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.

Disavow anyone who provokes or accepts the extermination of a race to which he does not belong. - Jean Cocteau

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