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Quote by Jean Cocteau
After the writers death, reading his journal is like receiving a l

After the writers death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. – Jean Cocteau

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A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. – Jean Cocteau

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Automobiles
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. – Jean Cocteau

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Art
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poets job. The rest is literature. – Jean Cocteau

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Ordinary
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Dying is easy, its living that scares me to death. – Annie Lennox

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Death Valley is really wide-open – its bigger than Rhode Island – and its less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so theres lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on. – Gus Van Sant

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Death

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. – Mark Twain

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Death

One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic. – Joseph Stalin

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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. – Thomas Aquinas

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