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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

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Tact consists in knowing how far to go in going too far.

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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

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Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.

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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

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Being tactful in audacity is knowing how far one can go too far.

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That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
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Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau
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Born: July 5, 1889
Died: October 11, 1963 (aged 74)
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