"That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier’s wrist."
— Jean Cocteau

January 1, 1970

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On his visit to the deathbed of Marcel Proust, as quoted in "Cocteau: The Great Enchanter" by Edmund White Vogue (May 1984)