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

—  Jean Cocteau

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

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French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager … 1889–1963

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