I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

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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.

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All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.

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If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

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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.

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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

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The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

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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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