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Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.
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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
To survive, you must tell stories.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
