The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
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Life is a horizontal fall.
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A good upbringing consists in hiding how much you think of yourself, and how little you think of others.
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Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.
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