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

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

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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poets job. The rest is literature. – Jean Cocteau

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Life is life, and death is life, and everything in between. – 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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. – Alexander Pope

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He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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