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An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Jean Cocteau
Born: July 5, 1889
Died: October 11, 1963 (aged 74)
Bio: Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants Terribles, and the films Blood of a Poet, Les Parents Terribles, Beauty and the Beast and Orpheus.
Known for:
- Orpheus (1950)
- Beauty and the Beast (1946)
- The Blood of a Poet (1932)
- Testament of Orpheus (1960)
- Les Parents terribles (1948)
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