"Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it."
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"Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma."
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"The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path."
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"The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches."
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"Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere."
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"Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you."
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"Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer."
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"I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes."
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"one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started"
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"Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it."
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"In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this journey which memory forgets. One must, when this is impossible, write or draw without responding to the romantic solicitations of pain, without enjoying suffering like music, tieing a pen to one's foot if need be, helping the doctors who can learn nothing from laziness."
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"Lack of manners is the sign of a hero."
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"Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous."
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"Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection."
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"The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape."
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