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"He who is affected by an insult is infected by it."
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"Do not close the circle. Leave it open. Descartes closes the circle. Pascal leaves it open. Rousseaus triumph over the encyclopedists is to have left his circle open when they closed theirs."
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Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th century and highly influential on the Surrealist and Dadaist movements, among others. The National Observer suggested that "of the artistic generation whose daring gave birth to Twentieth Century Art, Cocteau came
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