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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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Best Friendship God Lost Mercy Myself
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy 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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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
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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Art Artist Bad Fame Give Up Reward Success
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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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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Believe Explanation Luck
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Art Artist Discussion Plant Talk Voice
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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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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Appearance Better Delicate Discover Force Lose Yourself
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Acceptance Deserve Oneself Reward Yourself
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom

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