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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

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. – Jean Cocteau

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Death
Author
Jean Cocteau
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry
Author
Jean Cocteau
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Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but its not unfamiliar to you. Its always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life. – Bell Hooks

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When death has you by the throat, you dont mince words. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation. – Stanislav Grof

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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. – Walter Benjamin

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