Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me j… - Jean Cocteau

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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 friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.

Jean Cocteau

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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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The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.

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