"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."
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Source: 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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