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Happiness is always a coincidence.
Art is good but it isn't the best.
Theology is the logic of the Devil.
A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.
Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.
The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.
Who learns most from a good book is the author.
A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.
To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.
True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
Skepticism is provisional, even if it lasts a lifetime.
Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.
A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.
Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed.
To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.
You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.