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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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