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- I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of…
- If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!
- Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and…
- I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.
- All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
- I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all
- The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
- Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are…
- I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the…
- DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when…
- To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
- Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
- The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
- I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
- Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above…
- Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
- There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more
- Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every…
- One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.
- 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…
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