Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure
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Source: Lettres à Jean Marais
“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
Source: The Difficulty of Being
Source: Barbette
“Je sais que la poésie est indispensable, mais je ne sais pas à quoi.”
“« Le cinéma, c’est l’écriture moderne dont l’encre est la lumière. »”
Source: Thomas l'imposteur
Source: La Belle et la Bête
“One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it.”
“Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.”
Source: Past tense: diaries
“I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.”
Source: Past tense: diaries
“The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.”
Source: Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings
“See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.”
“We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.”
Source: Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure
“What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.”
Source: The Difficulty of Being
“The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.”
“Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.”
“The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.”
“Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.”
Source: The blood of a poet
“We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.”
“Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.”
Source: Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings
“Art is science in the flesh.”
Source: Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings
“Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.”
“The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.”
Source: Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings
“The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.”
Source: A Call to Order, Written Between the Years 1918 and 1926 and Including