Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.
Love is being stupid together.
What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
Beware of what you do best; its bound to be a trap.
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
Politeness is organized indifference.
No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.
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.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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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