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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. – 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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Death
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. – Jean Cocteau

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Escape, Escapism
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It is when we try to grapple with another mans intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. – Joseph Conrad

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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. – Marcus Aurelius

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No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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