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

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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. – Mason Cooley

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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. – Samuel Johnson

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Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. – Mary Manin Morrissey

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Every second is of infinite value. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It wont take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate. – Mary Cheney

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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. – George MacDonald

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