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Quote by Jean Cocteau
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it pr

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 poets job. The rest is literature. – Jean Cocteau

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. – Jean Cocteau

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After the writers death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. – Jean Cocteau

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Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face. – William Wordsworth

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Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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