The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, … - Jean Cocteau

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Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.

Jean Cocteau

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Fashion, Simple, Style, Things, Way

The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.

Teaching, Eye, Open, Living, Closed, Dead

I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love

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Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.

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Jumaane Williams

Housing, it's not a plaything. It's not something that you can just play around with. It is, I believe, the rubric of family. It is the glue for a healthy community. And to have someone that really wants to dismantle any government involvement in making sure that every community has access to that is very scary. We should be worried.

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Wes Anderson

When you finish work, practically everybody in that place is going to watch a movie at night anyway. They're tired. They have dinner. They go up to their room. They're watching TV.

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Peter Mayle

Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.

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Chester Brown

When you're in a relationship, the dynamic seems to change over time. I only had two long-term girlfriends, but with both of them, as time went on, the sex tapered off in terms of frequency. We had sex less and less often. And talking with friends or whatever, hearing other people's stories, that seems to be the case with a lot of romantic relationships.

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