“We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.”
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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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The function of genius is to furnish cretins 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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O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
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