"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
"The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality."
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Source: Quoted by Pierre Chanel in A Thousand Flashes of Genius, Jean Cocteau and the French Scene. Book by Jean Cocteau, 1984.
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