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, they finish by loading honors on your head.
Quote by Jean Cocteau
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like.
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The extreme limit of wisdom-- that is what the public calls madness.
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.