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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

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Man is an imagining being.

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There is no original truth, only original error.

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I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

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I've always been a bit flip.

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The earth has a life of its own.

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I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

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My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

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You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

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I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.

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I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.

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I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.

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The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

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