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One's duty is to feel what is...

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

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A thing derided is a thing de...

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

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What seems to me the highest ...

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

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God is only a word dreamed up...

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world

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We must laugh and cry, enjoy ...

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.

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Since you are now studying ge...

Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain?

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A man is a critic when he can...

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

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We think of women at every ag...

We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a na?ve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls kissing us and cuddling us in their arms; at the age of ten, we dream of love; at fifteen, love comes along; at sixty, it is still with us, and if dead men in their tombs have any thought in their heads, it is how to make their way underground to the nearby grave, lift the shroud of the dear departed women, and mingle with her in her sleep

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How we keep these dead souls ...

How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.

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You must write for yourself, ...

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

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I will cover you with love wh...

I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports.... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.

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You forget everything. The ho...

You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes.

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Do not imagine you can exorci...

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

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The hearts of women are like ...

The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!

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Earth has its boundaries, but...

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

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The principal thing in this w...

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

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I am an obscure and patient p...

I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down into those innermost recesses which never cease to fascinate the strong. I shall spend my life gazing at the ocean of art, where others voyage or fight; and from time to time I’ll entertain myself by diving for those green and yellow shells that nobody will want. So I shall keep them for myself and cover the walls of my hut with them.

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I have dreamed much and have ...

I have dreamed much and have done very little.

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Are the days of winter sunshi...

Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.

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Through small apertures we gl...

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

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