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/ page 195 of 1205 /The trouble about the Academie is that by the time they get around to electing us to a seat, we really need a bed.
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You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier's wrist.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Being tactful in audacity is knowing how far one can go to far.
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Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
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He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.
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The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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