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Jean Cocteau

"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness."

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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

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"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

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"Two things influence one's wisdom: remarkable experience and " evenmuch more " accumulated knowledge."

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"Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table-it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket-that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep."

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"No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion."

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"Humans are the villains, they are the killers. That's the truth.... for god sake!"

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"You are always a bishop with a ambition and second as a fisher."

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