One sits down first one thinks afterwards.

Jean Cocteau
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  2. How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. - David Norris

  3. Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. - Dion Boucicault

  4. But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. - Benjamin Disraeli

  5. Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time, ' is like saying, 'I don't want to. - Lao Tzu

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  1. Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

  2. The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

  3. Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

  4. A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability...

  5. The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

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