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Jean Cocteau

"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."

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"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."

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"To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist!"

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"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."

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

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"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death."

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"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."

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"We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place."

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"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."

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"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm."

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"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."

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"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

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