“Living is a horizontal fall”

Jean Cocteau was a French writer, film director, and painter.

Jean Cocteau’s concise aphorism portrays life as continuous movement and existential uncertainty.

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Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was born in 1889 in Maisons-Laffitte near Paris and died in 1963 in Milly-la-Forêt. He published his first poems at the age of 17, and his first poetry collections appeared in 1909. In addition to literature, he worked in film, painting, and ballet.

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