Quote by Jean Cocteau
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body. - Jean Cocteau

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body. – Jean Cocteau

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. – Jean Cocteau

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Death
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I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau

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Cats
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. – Jean Cocteau

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Other Quotes from
Recovery (addiction/alcoholism)
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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. – Shirley Chisholm

Treating mental illness saves all of us money. Take addiction. We heard testimony that for every dollar spent on addiction treatment, we save $7. That – Kathleen Vinehout

I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area. – William S. Burroughs

In this country, dont forget, a habit is no damn private hell. Theres no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country its the worst kind of hell for those who love you. – Billie Holiday

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