The Heart of the Ocean (also known as Le Cœur de la Mer) is the name of a fictional blue diamond featured prominently in the 1997 film Titanic. Originally owned by Louis XVI, this fictional diamond was cut into a heart shape after the French Revolution. Caledon Hockley (Billy Zane), the wealthy son of a Pittsburgh steel tycoon, purchased the diamond for his fiancée, Rose (Kate Winslet).
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“Money cannot purchase what the heart desires.”
—Chinese proverb.
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—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)