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- Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar -…
- [The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He…
- The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
- I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
- Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity,…
- You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught…
- I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the…
- God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world
- We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naïve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls kissing us and…
- I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to…
- Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will…
- I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition.…
- In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do…
- I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal…
- I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s…
- The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
- Remembering the ball became for Emma a daily occupation. Every time Wednesday came round, she told herself when she woke up: 'Ah! One week ago...two…
- Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss at their foot…
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