"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
"After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting."
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Source: Jean Cocteau (2013). “The Difficulty of Being”, p.46, Melville House
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