"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
"I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say."
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Source: Jean Cocteau (1926*). “A Call to Order, Written Between the Years 1918 and 1926 and Including Cock and Harlequin, Professional Secrets, and Other Critical Essays”
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