Author: Jean Cocteau

Cites

• Charles Baudelaire (1)
  • IN: The Infernal Machine and other Plays (1963) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: "...at that point where I can scarely conceive (could my brain be an enchanted mirror?) a kind of beauty in which there is no misfortune." "Like all my friends, I have tried more than once to enclose myself in a system and preach there at my ease. But a system is a sort of damnation... I have come back to seek shelter in impeccable naivete. It is there that my philosophical conscience finds rest."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Jean Cocteau (1)
  • IN: The Infernal Machine and other Plays (1963) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: The gods exist; that's the devil of it.
    FROM: NULL, (1963), Author, France

Cited by

• Jonathan Coe (1)
  • IN: The Winshaw Legacy (1994) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Orphee: Enfin, Madame...m'expliquerez-vois? La Princesse: Rien. Si vous dormez, si vous revez, acceptez vos reves. C'est le role du dormeur.
    FROM: Orphee, (1950), Screenplay, France
• Paul Rudnick (1)
  • IN: Gorgeous (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The privileges of beauty are enormous.
    FROM: The White Paper, (1928), NULL, France
• Gregory Galloway (1)
  • IN: The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men always come back. They're so absurd.
    FROM: Orphee, (1950), Film, France
• Jean Cocteau (1)
  • IN: The Infernal Machine and other Plays (1963) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: The gods exist; that's the devil of it.
    FROM: NULL, (1963), Author, France
• Kristin McCloy (1)
  • IN: Hollywood Savage (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: These notes... are addressed to the addicts, the victims, the unknown friends enlisted by books: the sole excuse for writing them.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Gilbert Adair (1)
  • IN: The Death of the Author (1992) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Since these mysteries are beyond us, let us pretend to have devised them.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Yasmine Galenorn (1)
  • IN: Priestess Dreaming (2014) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France