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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
The future is the worst thing about the present.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.