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"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."
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"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."
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"There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul."
Love
"The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up."
Success
"One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends."
Friendship
"One must be a living man and a posthumous artist."
Art
"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."
Death
"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
Success
"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."
Commonplace
"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."
Habit
"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head."
Society
"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."
Art
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