Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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