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Silence moves faster when it's going backward. - Jean Cocteau

Silence moves faster when it’s going backward. – Jean Cocteau

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

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

Category:
Escape, Escapism
Author
Jean Cocteau
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
good
Author
Jean Cocteau
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We are never prepared for what we expect. – James A. Michener, Caravans

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Hmmm

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go. – Nikos Kazantzakis

Category:
Hmmm

You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Hmmm
[T]he departing world leaves behind… not an heir, but a pregnant widow. – Alexander Ivanovich Herzen, Other Shore

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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. – Irving Howe

Category:
Knowledge

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Life

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time. – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Category:
Right, Rightness

He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone. – Fred A. Allen

Category:
Dreams