"Without resistance you can do nothing"
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"The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source."
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"I am burning myself up and will always do so."
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"The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done."
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"The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us."
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"Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life."
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"Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities."
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"Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail."
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"Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind."
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"Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive."
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"In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake."
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"What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end."
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"To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far."
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"I have never felt any connection with my family. There isI must say simplysomething in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin."
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"I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty."
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"Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble."
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"Respect movements, flee schools."
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"What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn."
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"Art is science made flesh."
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"Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself."
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