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One day, I shall explode like ...

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

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In my view, the novelist has n...

In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.

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We must laugh and cry, enjoy a...

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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My foregrounds are imaginary, ...

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

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Stupidity lies in wanting to d...

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

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It's hard to communicate anyth...

It's hard to communicate anything exactly and that's why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

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And he beholds the moon; like ...

And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.

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On certain occasions art can s...

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

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Abstraction can provide stumbl...

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

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It is an excellent habit to lo...

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

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I am an obscure and patient pe...

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 w

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What an awful thing life is, i...

What an awful thing life is, isn't it? It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.

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As you get older, the heart sh...

As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature's greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.

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I'm dazzled by your facility. ...

I'm dazzled by your facility. In ten days you'll have written six stories! I don't understand it I'm like one of those old aqueducts: there's so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.

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If you participate in life, yo...

If you participate in life, you don't see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim.

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The writer must wade into life...

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

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You don't make art out of good...

You don't make art out of good intentions.

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The public wants work which fl...

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

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As humanity perfects itself, m...

As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky.

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Talent is long patience....

Talent is long patience.

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