“ The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. ”
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“ I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. ”
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“ An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. ”
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“ I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. ”
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“ Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue! ”
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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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“ The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. ”
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“ A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever. ”
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“ When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing. ”
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“ Success had put me on the wrong track and I did not know that there is a kind of success worse than failure, and a kind of failure worth all the success in the world. Neither did I know that the distant friendship of Rainer Maria Rilke would one day console me for having seen his lamp burn without knowing that it was signalling me to go and singe my wings against its flame. ”
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“ True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ”
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“ In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. ”
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“ A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. ”
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“ The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them. ”
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“ What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes itself felt above that of the model. With the writer, line takes precedence over form and content. It runs through the words he assembles… ”
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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 hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. ”
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“ Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. ”
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“ I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. ”
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“ The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them. ”
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“ The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them. ”
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