We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
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The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
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The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
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The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
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Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
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Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
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There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
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