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“I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties...”

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Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette…

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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

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Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.

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I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

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Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and…

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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete…

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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures

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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing…

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To be interesting, one has to provoke.

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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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