Death Quote by Jean Cocteau Download Open image “After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.” — Jean Cocteau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Death Long Reading Writing
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A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
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One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print. — William Goldman 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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Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
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