The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

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It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

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