4 Jean Cocteau Quotes on Psychology

Jean Cocteau quotes on psychology

49. Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo.

54. There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

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.

85. Accuracy is vexing to a crowd of would-be fantasizers. Hasn't our age coined the term 'escapism,' when in fact the only way to escape oneself is to allow oneself to be invaded?