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Accuracy is vexing to a crowd of would-be fantasizers. Hasn't our age coined the term "escapism," when in fact the only way to escape oneself is to allow oneself to be invaded?

— Jean Cocteau Diary of an Unknown (1988)

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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Le Mystère Laïc (1928)

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

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