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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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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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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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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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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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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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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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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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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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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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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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