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1205 Critic Quotes

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Any Days Food Go
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Always be a poet, even in prose.

Always Even Poet Prose
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Book Company Counselors Garden
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Beautiful Calculation Everything Noble
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Inspiration comes of working every day.
Every Day Inspiration Working
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Captain Evening He His
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Atmosphere City Life Marvelous
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Art Else Everything Passion
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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Beauty Habitual Happiness Kinds
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Amusing Boring Considered Everything
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Even Financial Honesty Merchant
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Inner Nature Nothing Voice
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Nothing can be done except little by little.

Done Except Little Nothing
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The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Goes Misunderstanding Only Round
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

Bottle Sweetheart Wife Wine
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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Dare Except Long Piece
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Among Artist Express First
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Always Art Done Effort
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Art Being Contingent Eternal
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Beating Cemetery Drum Funeral
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Childhood Genius Recalled Will
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Beings Create Exist Know
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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Literature Most Agreeable Ignoring
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it

No-intelligent Idea General Acceptance
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My past is everything I failed to be.

Past Failed Be
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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Ships Sailing Many Ports
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I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.

Woken Early Time Ready
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We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

Never Love Anyone Idea
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I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

Rejected Understood Prostitute Prefer
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In order to understand, I destroyed myself.
In order Understand Destroyed Myself
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I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

Nothing Something Want Dream
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I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
Life Came Found Reality
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I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

Bear Wounds Battle Avoided
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The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Value Things Last Intensity
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I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.
Never Done Dream Meaning
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We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

Worship Perfection Because Reject
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To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

Opinion Sell Yourself Exist
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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

Die People Write Biography
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To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
Know Yourself Badly Think
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Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

My-longing Whom Might Distracts
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But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

Perfect Putting Things Divine
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I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.

Losing Taste Everything Finding
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The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
Essence What Desire Sleep
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Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.

Friends Few Acquaintances Imagine
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Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.
Life Travel Traveler What
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I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.

Know Feel Want Think
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But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?
Really-live Knowing What Life
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Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

Never Discovered Qualities Attract
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I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.

Carry Awareness Defeat Banner
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There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Norms People Exceptions Rule
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