5 Jean Cocteau Quotes on Memory

Jean Cocteau quotes on memory

4. The Louvre is like the morgue; one goes there to identify one's friends.

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

22. A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

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

55. If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism.... The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.