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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

Category:
Ordinary
Author
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

Category:
Society
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Jean Cocteau
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Other Quotes from
Hmmm
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Invent a past for the present. – Daniel Stern

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Hmmm

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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Hmmm

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. – Thomas Carlyle

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Hmmm

You’re only as sick as your secrets. – Author Unknown

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I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers. – Jam Master Jay

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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats I am only surprised that all do not. – Carl Van Vechten

Category:
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Happiness

Every day we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. – Paulo Coelho

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Fairy Tales