One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

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The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

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Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

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An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

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One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

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The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

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