Lista de Poemas

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
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Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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