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Quote by Jean Cocteau
Youve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will

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

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. – Jean Cocteau

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Automobiles
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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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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. – Jean Cocteau

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Art
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Other Quotes from
Death
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If we cant face death, well never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light. – Maya Lin

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Death

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. – George Eliot

Category:
Death

People think celebrities dont have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. Its like youve traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. – David Duchovny

Category:
Death

When Im lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me. – Steven Morrissey

Category:
Death

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As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. – Anthony Trollope

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I mean, were going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as Im alive. – Paul Wolfowitz

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I dont think socialism, and I dont think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words. – Dave Matthews

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I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude. – William Banting

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thankful