Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Jean Cocteau
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  1. Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving... - Unknown

  2. In a time of destruction, create something. - Maxine Hong Kingston

  3. Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. - Roy T. Bennett

  4. I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. - Oscar Wilde

  5. What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey. - Mark Twain

More Quotes By Jean Cocteau
  1. Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

  2. The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

  3. Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

  4. A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability...

  5. The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

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