Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Love is being stupid together.
The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.
[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.
We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
Politeness is organized indifference.
Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.
History is the science of what never happens twice.
My poems mean what people take them to mean.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.
Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer fed by anything but sudden changes and constantly renewed stimuli. We can no longer bear anything that lasts. We no longer know how to make boredom bear fruit. So the whole question comes down to this: can the human mind master what the human mind has made?
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