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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers
Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.
Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God
Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon's reflection.
Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.
Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.
Embark on the journey of LOVE. It takes you from yourself to yourself.
You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it.
Love has come to rule and transform; Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.
Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing!
My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage
A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.
God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.
Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.
We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.
Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!
One by one, like leaves from a tree, / All my faiths have forsaken me.
The world is tired, the year is old, The faded leaves are glad to die.
Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.
What is gained through ignorance is bound to be lost through ignorance
My parents are great listeners Which is why I never tell them anything
Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?
In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking.
I love people, but I love the thought and memory of them just as much.
I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still
I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time.
I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.
Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.
It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues, Which moves the world.
If men must beg to live, May the Creator also go wandering and perish.
And hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast and calm repose.
O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.
Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.
You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.
I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.