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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Habit)
Beauty is always the result of an accident. Of a violent lapse between acquired habits and those yet to be acquired. It baffles and disgusts. It may even horrify. Once the new habit has been acquired, the accident ceases to be an accident. It becomes classical and loses its shock value.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.
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Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.
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He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Poetry)
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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