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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

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.

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

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 is as precise a thing as geometry.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

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.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

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