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"Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force."
"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
"Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative."
"We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel."
"There's no such thing as love; only proof of love."
"The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living."
"If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas."
"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."
"After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter."
"Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality."
"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."
"Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them."
"The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house."
"If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house."
"You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort."
"Every day in the mirror I watch death at work."
"A film is a petrified fountain of thought."
"One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends."
"A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter."
"Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence."