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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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"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
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"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."
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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 actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."
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"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."
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"I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead."
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"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."
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"One must be a living man and a posthumous artist."
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"Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far."

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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

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"It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality."

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"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."

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"Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty."

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"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."

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"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""

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"Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death."

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"Better to rest in peace than rot in pieces."

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