Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

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It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

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One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

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I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

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The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

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