Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Success had put me on the wrong track and I did not know that there is a kind of success worse than… — 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
How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it.… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — 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 Image
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
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 Image
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
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