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Quote by Jean Cocteau
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which hab

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

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poets job. The rest is literature. – Jean Cocteau

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Ordinary
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Jean Cocteau
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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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Automobiles
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry
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Other Quotes from
Habits
category

Good habits result from resisting temptation. – Proverb

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Habits

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Ryun

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Habits

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. – Somerset Maugham

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Habits

Habit is a great deadener. – Samuel Beckett

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Habits

Random Quotes

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail. – Carroll OConnor

Category:
Men

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. – George Eliot

Category:
great

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say? – Vaclav Havel

Category:
Oppression

Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity. – Liam McIntyre

Category:
Dreams