When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

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There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

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You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

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If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

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