Jean Cocteau: Frases em inglês (página 6)

Frases em inglês.
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“We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.”

Also quoted in Diary of an Unknown (1991) as translated by Jesse Browne.
Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)

“After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.”

On the journal of Franz Kafka; diary entry (7 June 1953); Past Tense: Diaries Vol. 2 (1988)

“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”

Esquire magazine (February 1961)

“The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.”

As quoted in An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music (1981) by Nat Shapiro, p. 130

“The Louvre is like the morgue; one goes there to identify one’s friends.”

"Le Secret Professionnel" in Le Rappel à l’Ordre (1922; 1926)
As quoted by Roger Shattuck in "A Native Son of Paris", Jean Cocteau and the French Scene (1984)
Variante: The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

“Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.”

Variant translation: Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)

“Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.”

Dessins (1924), as quoted by Pierre Chanel in "A Thousand Flashes of Genius", Jean Cocteau and the French Scene (1984)