Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)

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Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) has been called the most versatile artist of the twentieth century, and in this case hyperbole has at least some basis in reality. Born to a middle-class family in Paris, he excelled from youth in an almost absurd range of fields: filmmaking, poetry, graphic art, fiction, drama, couture, even postage-stamp design. Most of all, Cocteau was a brilliant, witty, self-invented personality whose talents put him at the forefront of practically every "ism" of the century, fr.. Continue..

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	A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

- Jean Cocteau

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