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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

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

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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Jean Cocteau
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we dont like? – Jean Cocteau

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Success
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Jean Cocteau
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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue! – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry
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Jean Cocteau
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Other Quotes from
Death
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. – William Hazlitt

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Death

You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. – The Epic of Gilgamesh

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Death

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. – George Eliot

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Death

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel. – Theodore Bikel

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Death

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Once you start a working on something, dont be afraid of failure and dont abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. – Chanakya

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Failure

I like to say magic is the worlds second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion. – Criss Angel

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Religion

The day I finished Twilight, I came home and started bulking up. For New Moon, Im 30 pounds heavier than I was in Twilight. – Taylor Lautner

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Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter. – Josh McDowell

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Easter