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

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. – Jean Cocteau

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

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Death
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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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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. – Jack London

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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. – Edmund Wilson

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? – Stephen Levine

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Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. – Bhumibol Adulyadej

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To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs — a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days. – Edward Hoagland

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I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else. – Henry Rollins

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There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition. – Paul Ryan

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