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

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

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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another. – Jean Cocteau

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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. – Jean Cocteau

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If we dance amongst the rooftops, is it not that much further to jig into the starshine? – Terri Guillemets

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If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could! – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one. – Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, 1964

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Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnamable. – Francis Ponge

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