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Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
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Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
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