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.
Jean CocteauA true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean CocteauIt seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
Jean CocteauA man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.
Jean Cocteau