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The light died out and left the sky,
We sighed and rose and said good-bye,
We had forgotten — He and I,
That he was dead, that I must die.
Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux
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Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.
Michel Houellebecq
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Young man untroubled by melancholy, fair as an Italian sun, take good care of your fine carelessness.
Théodore de Banville
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Apollinaire asserted that Chirico's first paintings were done under the influence of kinesthetic disorders (migraines, colic, etc.)
André Breton
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
Anatole France
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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
Jean de La Fontaine
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If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.
Charles Baudelaire
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Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but if she is not, if she is merely young and beautiful, love her for that; if she is agreeable and spirituelle, love her for that; if she is none of these things but merely loves you, love her for that. Love does not come to us every day.
Alfred de Musset
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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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I know everything, but I don't understand any of it.
René Daumal
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Say, boys! if you give me just another whiskey I'll be glad, And I'll draw right here a picture of the face that drove me mad. Give me that piece of chalk with which you mark the baseball score, You shall see the lovely Madeleine upon the bar-room floor.
Hugh Antoine d'Arcy
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To go away is to die a little, it is to die to that which one loves: everywhere and always, one leaves behind a part of oneself.
Edmond Haraucourt
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A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.
Ambrose
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Farewell sadness
Good-day sadness
You are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
Paul Éluard
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There is no mystery about the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. They were not written by Shakespeare at all. They were all written by a total stranger, about whom all we know is that he was called Shakespeare.
Alphonse Allais
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Yet this is the watch by night.
Let us all accept new strength, and
real tenderness. And at dawn, armed
with glowing patience, we will enter
the cities of glory.
Arthur Rimbaud
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No one can be too talkative without often saying something that makes him look foolish, for the wise man's saying goes: "Whoever talks too much does himself a bad turn."
Chrétien de Troyes
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Followers of trails and of seasons, breakers of camp in the little dawn wind, seekers of watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world, o seekers, o finders of reasons to be up and be gone....
Saint-John Perse
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Harvest, oh! harvest your hour While life is abloom with youth! For age with bitter ruth Will fade your beauty's flower.
Pierre de Ronsard
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How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)
Edmond Jabès
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What colour are they now, thy quiet waters?
The evening star has brought the evening light,
And filled the river with the green hillside;
The hill-tops waver in the rippling water,
Trembles the absent vine and swells the grape
In thy clear crystal.
Ausonius
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Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heretics. There are no heresies in a dead religion.
André Suarès
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Through wind, hail or frost my living's made.
I am a lecher, and she's a lecher with me.
Which one of us is better? We're both alike:
The one as worthy as the other. Bad rat, bad cat.
We both love filth, and filth pursues us;
We flee from honor, honor flees from us,
In this brothel where we ply our trade.
François Villon
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Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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And so I leave
On cruel winds
Squalling
And gusting me
Like a dead leaf
Falling.
Paul Verlaine
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