COCTEAU Jean Autograph MANUSCRIT,[1954]; 1 page and a half in-4. Notes for his diary. This manuscript consists of eleven entries, separated by asterisks. These are not day notes, but rather reflections on himself and his work. "OEdipe-Roi. As with the great tapestry of the Musée d'Antibes, I try to paint by writing, by telling". On his participation in the film by Hans RICHTER and Marcel DUCHAMP, Marcel Duchamp's Chess Game: "Almost my entire sequence is turned upside down, against the principle of causality. The effects occur there before the cause".... On the villa Santo-Sospir: "In 1950 I started tattooing the walls. I made the ceilings in 1953, as well as the mosaics of the porch"... On the misunderstanding between him and the public: "I have never read about myself except inaccuracies, things I have never done or said. And I only like accuracy. It's not good luck." Or: "There is a Cocteau that we invent and another that I am. They do not know each other and do not want to know each other"... On his refusal to hire a secretary to answer his letter: "And how could a secretary answer in our place. Poets only receive letters of insults or love letters"....