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Jean Cocteau Quotes: I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
         

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.


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