Jean Cocteau Quotes About Addiction

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

    Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers
  • 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 Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen
  • The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

    Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen
  • Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

    Arthur King Peters, Jean Cocteau, André Gide (1973). “Jean Cocteau and André Gide: An Abrasive Friendship”, New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
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