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/ page 740 of 1205 /God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
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It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
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We are all born marked for evil.
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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
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It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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Music fathoms the sky.
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
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Progress, this great heresy of decay.
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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