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- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make…
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new…
- My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
- A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of…
- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely…
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
- In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he…
- When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of…
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