Death Reading Quotes by Jean Cocteau

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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience…

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

“Vivre est une chute horizontale”

I expect a black silence that is almost as violent as laughter.

My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.