There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

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The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

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What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.

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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon

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Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

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Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.

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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

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It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.

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Language was not given to man: he seized it.

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