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 cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau

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Cats
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Youve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. – Jean Cocteau

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Death
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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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Other Quotes from
Carpe Diem
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Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. – Louis Céline, Voyage au bout du monde, 1932

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Carpe Diem

though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing. – e.e. cummings

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Carpe Diem

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are — that is the fact. – Jean Paul Sartre, Situations, 1939

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Carpe Diem

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. – Mark Twain

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Carpe Diem

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Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. – Sydney Smith, His Wit and Wisdom, 1900

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame –to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell! – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Then your words of abuse today may turn into a universally valid principle of denigration, for words are magical formulae. They leave fingermarks behind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye becomes the footprints of history. One ought to watch one’s every word. – Franz Kafka, quoted by Gustav Janouch, Conversations with Kafka

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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Freedom