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Any healthy man can go

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
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I consider it useless and

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
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Poetry and progress are like

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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We are weighed down, every

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
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The world only goes round

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
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There exist only three beings

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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Le Gout du Néant

Le Gout du Néant
Morne esprit, autrefois amoureux de la lutte,
L'Espoir, dont l'éperon attisait ton ardeur,
Ne veut plus t'enfourcher! Couche-toi sans pudeur,
Vieux cheval dont le pied à chaque obstacle bute.
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Au Lecteur La sottise,

Au Lecteur
La sottise, l'erreur, le péché, la lésine,
Occupent nos esprits et travaillent nos corps,
Et nous alimentons nos aimables remords,
Comme les mendiants nourrissent leur vermine.
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A book is a garden,

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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It is the greatest art

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.
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