The White Paper

by Jean Cocteau

When fatality appears in disguise it gives us an illusion of freedom and in the end always leads us into the same trap.

Too many little pleasures were disturbed by the ghost of the handsome animal whose charm had moved even death itself.

Instead of adopting Rimbaud's gospel, The time of the assassins has come, young people would do better to remember the phrase Love must be reinvented. The world accepts dangerous experiments in the realm of art because it does not take art seriously; but it condemns them in life.

But I will not agree to be tolerated. This damages my love of love and of liberty.