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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Degraded
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
Read much, but not many books.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Read in order to live.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
- Deplorable
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- Nov 07, 2020
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
- Good Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
- Nov 07, 2020
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
- Perception
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no truth. There is only perception.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
- Exuberance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exuberance is better than taste.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Madame Bovary is myself.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
- Disparaging
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
- Axiom
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
- Soul
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- Nov 07, 2020
Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
- Charm
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- Nov 07, 2020
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
- Fleas
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- Nov 07, 2020
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020