Jean Cocteau Quotes on Legacy

4 quotes

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

  2. The trouble about the Academie is that by the time they get around to electing us to a seat, we really need a bed.

  3. That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier's wrist.

  4. One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

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