“Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.”
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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
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Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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