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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.

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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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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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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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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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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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