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Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples one speaks of thieves.
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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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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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