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"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
Man

"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
Faith

"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."
Travel

"A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies."
Friendship

"The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it."
Art

"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
Being

"Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry."
Poetry

"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."
Happiness

"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him."
Work

"The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family."
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"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
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"Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making."
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Personal Development

"I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment."
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"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
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"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
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"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"
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"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
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