HERE

You shall not make idols for yourselves
or erect an image or pillar ...”

A man that studieth revenge
keeps his own wounds green.”

The goal of Socialism is Communism.”

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom
for the one who thinks differently.”

We gaze continually at the world
and it grows dull in our perceptions.”

The path to paradise begins in hell.”

To save all we must risk all.”

Winter is dead.”

The heart was made to be broken.”

Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.”

I stand between two worlds. I am at home
in neither, and I suffer in consequence.”

My will had gone and I feared to be alone,
lest the winds of circumstance, or power, or lust,
blow my empty soul away.”

If it is not beautiful for someone,
it does not exist.”

Inside I am a beautiful woman.”

Where we going, man?
I don't know but we gotta go.”

Always historicize!”

Wonder. Go on and wonder.”

The earth does not want new continents,
but new men.”

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings,
is a friend.”

I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms,
untried pleasures.”

I had the face of pleasure, and yet I had
no knowledge of pleasure.”

Hell is truth seen too late.”

I quit smoking in December.
I’m really depressed about it.”

He is one of those who don't want millions,
but an answer to their questions.”

I can resist everything.”

All art is erotic.”

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind
and find my soul.”

Dignified refusal can only take you so far.”

Till human voices wake us, and we drown.”

A lamb was a young animal which was legendary
for sleeping well on the planet Earth.”

Even if we believe that history is a workwheel
powered by human blood, at least we've known
the thing together.”

But my heart was far away, even if it beat close by,
false master of an estranged and exiled body.”

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.”

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.”

Liberty is very dangerous.”

Every act of creation is first of all
an act of destruction.”

Here come the planes.
So you better get ready.
Ready to go.”

Outside, the natural world was enjoying
a moment of total strength.”

Man reading should be man intensely alive.
The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

Whoever thinks of going to bed before
twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.”

...”

What a pity the man wasn’t lazy.”

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change.”

We all shine on.”

To visit a museum is fine,
to be a museum piece is terrible!”

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to
fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself?”

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”

In the end they will lay their freedom
at our feet and say to us, make us your slaves,
but feed us.”

Everything becomes symbol and irony
when you have been betrayed.”

One must not permit oneself excesses,
except with persons whom one wishes
soon to leave.”

Awake,chaos:we have napped.”

Trees are always a relief, after people.”

Us living as we do upside-down
And the new word to have is revolution.”

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee, and revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.”

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich
in contradictions.”

For if a lover's face survives emblazoned
on your heart, the world is still your home.”

To a certain degree we are really the person
others have seen in us.”

Once bitten.”

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure
and terror.”

It was a lucky wind
That blew away his halo with his cares,
A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.”

History is a nightmare from which I am
trying to awake.”

If the world changed, I could not exist,
and if I changed, the world could not exist.”

Wild honey smells of freedom
The mouth of a young girl, like a violet
But gold - smells of nothing.”

What did we do when we unchained the earth
from its sun?”

Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's
immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee
and me a billion years before this ocean rolled.”

I only appear to be dead.”

We are so constituted that we can gain intense
pleasure only from the contrast, and only very
little from the condition itself.”

Translation is the art of failure.”

Our people are good people; our people are kind
people. Pray God some day kind people won't all
be poor.”

I almost do not exist now and I know it;
God knows what lives in me in place of me.”

In our world there will be no emotions except
fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement.”

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