Poems List

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Les faux-monnayeurs (1925)

There is a certain state of health that does not allow us to understand everything; and perhaps illness shuts us off from certain truths; but health shuts us off just as effectively from others.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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Dare to be yourself.
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

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