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I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they bec

I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau

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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. – Jean Cocteau

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Society
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Jean Cocteau
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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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Jean Cocteau
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You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us – brown people – were looked at as the Others. – Mira Nair

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I think they quite like me when I work because Im one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films dont bring their costs in back home, once theyre shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs. – Satyajit Ray

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I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. – Christina Aguilera

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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. – Samuel Butler

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