The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.
Jean Cocteauone should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started
Jean CocteauLying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
Jean CocteauMy method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
Jean CocteauWhen we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because we see clearly. A little later, intelligence introduces its impeding contrivances. It brings the little toys which man invents in order to hide the void. It is then that we think we are seeing clearly. We attribute our uneasiness to the miasmas of the brain as it passes from dream to reality.
Jean Cocteau