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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

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. – Jean Cocteau

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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed waste-paper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. – D.H. Lawrence, “Peace and War,” Pansies, 1929

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…and leave wishes to those foolish enough to make them. – 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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If we dance amongst the rooftops, is it not that much further to jig into the starshine? – Terri Guillemets

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