"After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter." ― Jean Cocteau Topic(s): Death Tags: after, death, reading, writer More From Jean Cocteau "I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul." "You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive." "Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie." More In Death "Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it."― Abu Bakr "I have had death threats from people with fixations."― Enya "No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ anymore than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous crimes of Stalin condemn all Russians."― Jim Caviezel