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Quote by Jean Cocteau
The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. – Jean Cocteau

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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry
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Jean Cocteau
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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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Whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. Matthew 5:39 – Bible

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A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. – Herman Melville

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There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey. – William Edward Forster

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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence. – Joan Baez

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