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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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To survive, you must tell stories.
Love is wiser than wisdom.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people could express themselves only with their friends or at the bar after two or three glasses of something, and they said every silliness, and people laughed. Now they have the possibility to show up on the internet. And so, on the internet, along with the messages of a lot of interesting and important people - even the Pope is writing on Twitter - we have a great quantity of idiots.
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
