Jean Cocteau Quotes on Psychology
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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo.
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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.
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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.
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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?