The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“The purity of a revolution can last a fortnight. That is why a poet, the revolutionary of the soul, limits himself to… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously.… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
