"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
"Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically."
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Source: A Call to Order. Book by Jean Cocteau, 1926.
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