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The most subtle art, the stro...

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

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No encounter occured that day...

No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, finding sufficient sustenance in their rhythm and reveling in them at leisure, I closed the book and remained, trembling, more alive than I had thought possible, my mind numb with happiness.

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When you have nothing to say,...

When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

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Of some forty families I have...

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

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"Let the dead bury the dead."...

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

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Great minds tend toward banal...

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

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An unprejudiced mind is proba...

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

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Never have I been able to set...

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

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What another would have done ...

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.

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It seems to me that had I not...

It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought just as I did, and that I found in them rather an authorization than an awakening. Above all, they taught me to cease doubting, to cease fearing my thoughts, and to let those thoughts lead me to those lands that were not uninhabitable because after all I found them already there .

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Chastity more rarely follows ...

Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

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Too chaste an adolescence mak...

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

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Actions whose motives he cann...

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

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The work of art is the exagge...

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

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Mozart's joy is made of seren...

Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.

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To understand is nothing, but...

To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.

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Man's responsibility increase...

Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

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The less intelligent the whit...

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

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How much more sensuality invi...

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

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Generally among intelligent p...

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

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