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Jean Cocteau

"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."

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"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."

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"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking."

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"Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die."

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"Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I'd break it into bits."

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"In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep."

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