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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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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. – Jean Cocteau

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Society
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Jean Cocteau
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. – Jean Cocteau

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Death
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Life and death are important. Dont suffer them in vain. – Bodhidharma

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it. – Elias Canetti

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