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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock he must leave his family.
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Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction. No read in order to live.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Stupidity is something unshakable, nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it, it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius is above all force.
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Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.
