"Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.'……" — Guillaume Apollinaire
"Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew."
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32 Quotes by Guillaume Apollinaire
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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
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How slow life is, how violent hope is.
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When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would…
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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
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Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.
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It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.
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