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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

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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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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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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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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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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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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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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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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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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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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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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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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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