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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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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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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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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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