What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.

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

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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

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

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Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

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Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

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

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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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