1. “The rose is born evil… but it is pink.”
2. “There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.”
3. “Your imagination my dear fellow is worth more than you imagine.”
4. “Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.”
5. “Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.”
6. “I have no friends, there are only people I love.”
7. “Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real .”
8. “Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.”
9. “It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.”
10. “Language was not given to man: he seized it.”
11. “We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.”
12. “The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.”
13. “As if one could do what one wanted with one’s own body!”
14. “There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.”
15. “Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?”
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