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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

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A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

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The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

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Nothing can be done except little by little.

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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

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Always be a poet, even in prose.

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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

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