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"One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Music heals all forms of misery."
"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
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"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."
"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest."
"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
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