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«Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering... for me... And I loved it.»
Author: Benita Valente
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all too, bursting, cocoon, cocoons, knocked, opening night, The Met
«Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.»
Author: Edna Ferber
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cocoon, cocoons, cradled, engagement, engagements, Monday, ribbon, ribbons, tied, tied up, typewriter ribbon, white paper, white tie
«Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives»
Author: Hippolyte Taine
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Mankind
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cocoon, cocoons, hive, hives, philosophies, poems, silkworm
«Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree»
Author: Richard Harris
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Marriage
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«A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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aged, arrested, arrested development, cocoon, cocoons, continuing, convention, middle-aged, middle-aged man, muffle, muffled, muffling, on the contrary
«The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.»
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