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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.
Art like life is an open secret.
It is not peace we seek but meaning.
Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
Music is only love looking for words.
Truth is what most contradicts itself.
Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
The memory of man is as old as misfortune
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.
Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.
Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.
Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.
A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.
We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.
To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
