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

— Jean Cocteau Le Mystère Laïc (1928)

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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.

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.

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.

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