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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

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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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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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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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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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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 eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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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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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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