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"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.   Poetry
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.  
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours...  
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome...   Art
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the ar...   Art
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at th...  
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.  
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.  
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to gi...  
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to k...   Experience
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors ...  
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falli...  
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they ...  
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me th...  
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again...  
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for somethi...  
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to...   Peace
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.  
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it t...  
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves...  
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without havi...  
Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes hi...  
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies him...  
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his ima...  
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.  
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. ...  
Not everyone can be an orphan.  
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being compliment...  
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.  
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have thei...  
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of th...  
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and writ...  
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.  
The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.  
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason wr...  
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.  
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.  
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think...  
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends to...  
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and...  
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.  
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.  
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow...  
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, ...  
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especia...  
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.  
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What anothe...  
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, on...  
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.