Aliya Kadyrova

“There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.”
― Jean Cocteau

“If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.”
― Jean Cocteau

“Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people’s words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you’re going.”
― Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.”
― Jean Cocteau