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

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life...

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life...

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...

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...

Words make love with one another.

Words make love with one another.

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.

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 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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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,...

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...

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if...

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if...

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

When I grew up, I lived in the ghettos of Hollywood; it was the most...

When I grew up, I lived in the ghettos of Hollywood; it was the most...