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"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."
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"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
"Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature."
"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."
"Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs."
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"But all I could see was her. No skill of mine, no artist anywhere, could've immortalized how gorgeous she was. It was impossible to believe she'd ever had any doubts about her body. The firelight shone on her skin, golden and perfect, making her look like some radiant goddess of legend. I wanted to kneel before her and offer eternal obedience."
"I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist."
"Let her know that her look really works for you."
"Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it."
"Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion."
"Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world."
"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."
"When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror."
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