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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

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In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselve...more

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When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for m...more

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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of t...more

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With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to w...more