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Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Jeanne Calment
French supercentenarian, oldest human

Jeanne Louise Calment was a French supercentenarian and the oldest human whose age is documented, with a lifespan of 122 years and 164 days. Her longevity attracted media attention and medical studies of her health and lifestyle. She is the only person verified to have lived to the age of 120 and beyond.
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Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Jean Paul
German novelist

Jean Paul was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean Paul
German novelist

Jean Paul was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.
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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Jean Paul
German novelist

Jean Paul was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean Paul
German novelist

Jean Paul was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean-Paul Sartre
French Existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of Existentialism, a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, as well as a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to do so. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."
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I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

Jean Paul Gaultier
fashion designer

Jean Paul Gaultier is a French haute couture and prêt-à-porter fashion designer. He is described as an "enfant terrible" of the fashion industry and is known for his unconventional designs with motifs including corsets, marinières, and tin cans. Gaultier founded his self-titled fashion label in 1982, and expanded with a line of fragrances in 1993. He was the creative director for French luxury house Hermès from 2003 to 2010, and retired following his 50th-anniversary haute couture show during Paris Fashion Week in January 2020.
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I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

Jean-Michel Basquiat
American artist (1960-1988)

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.
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Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer and composer (1712–1778)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Jean Iris Murdoch
Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, the Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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