I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.

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Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

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The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

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To love is to undress our names.

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There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.

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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

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By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

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Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

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Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.

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Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

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