"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
"The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."
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Source: Le Coq et l'Arlequin (1918) in Le Rappel ... l'ordre (Recall to Order, 1926) p. 20
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