Jean Cocteau Quotes on Memory
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The Louvre is like the morgue; one goes there to identify one's friends.
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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier's wrist.
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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.