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Quote by Jean Cocteau
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. – Jean Cocteau

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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Escape, Escapism
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Jean Cocteau
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another. – Jean Cocteau

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best
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Jean Cocteau
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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

Category:
Ordinary
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Death
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It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through Gods mercy and Christs merits but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husbands arms, and to lie down with Him. – Donald Cargill

Category:
Death

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. – R. D. Laing

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Death

Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. – Aeschylus

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Death

I dont think of death in a romantic way anymore. – Robert Smith

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Death

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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The power of the computer is starting to spread. – Bill Budge

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