"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
"Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship."
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Source: Jean Cocteau (2013). “The Difficulty of Being”, p.57, Melville House
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