"The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation."
― Jean de la Bruyere
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Death
― Jean de la Bruyere
More From Jean de la Bruyere
- "Love and friendship exclude each other."
- "We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly."
- "Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do."
More In Death
- "You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive."― Jean Cocteau
- "It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits."― Wendell Berry
- "I wouldn’t feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy – I’d be bored to death."― Joaquin Phoenix