Quotes by Cocteau, Jean

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking towa >>

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit k >>

I am a lie who always speaks the truth. >>

Quotations about Addiction

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body. >>

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the >>

In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There' >>

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.

Cocteau, Jean