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Jean Cocteau

"You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive."

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"You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive."

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

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"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

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"Red sky at night, the city's alight."

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"Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism."

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"The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster Wallace."

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"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."

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"It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death."

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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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"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."
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"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
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