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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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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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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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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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