Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

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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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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

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There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

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Language was not given to man: he seized it.

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Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity.

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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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For each man there awaits a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

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Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

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

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