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The Louvre is like the morgue; one goes there to identify one’s friends.

— Jean Cocteau

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Notes from Wikiquote

As quoted by Roger Shattuck in "A Native Son of Paris", Jean Cocteau and the French Scene (1984)

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The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

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