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Quote by Jean Cocteau
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the deat

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. – Jean Cocteau

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I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau

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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. – Jean Cocteau

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There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back. – Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. – Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. – William Hazlitt, On the Love of Life, 1815

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No, my friend, I am not drunk. It is that I have been to the dentist and I need not go again for six months. It is a beautiful thought. – Agatha Christie, The Patriotic Murders (Hercule Poirot)

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I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies. – Sheryl Crow

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