"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
"And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept."
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Source: Jean Cocteau (1964). “The journals of Jean Cocteau”
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