Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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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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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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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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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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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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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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