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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..
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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
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Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.
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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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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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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
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