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Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

Man is what he reads.

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?