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NUMBER:12744
QUOTATION:When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
ATTRIBUTION:Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), French author, filmmaker. (Originally published 1918). Le Coq et l’Arlequin, Le Rappel à L’Ordre (1926), repr. In Collected Works, vol. 9 (1950).
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