There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

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For each man there awaits a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

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It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.

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Most people have never known solitude. But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

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Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

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Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity.

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There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

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Language was not given to man: he seized it.

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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon

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I have no friends, there are only people I love.

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