No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring,...

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring,...

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind...

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind...

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more...

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more...

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most...

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most...

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore,...

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore,...

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what...

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what...

Words make love with one another.

Words make love with one another.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might...

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might...

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain...

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain...

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty,...

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty,...