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Adversity (n.) provides the poet with ideas. A man is not a poet if it deprives him of ideas.
Art (n.) is never finished but only abandoned.
The Avant-garde (n.) is the only thing that never changes.
Beauty (n.) is what leads to desperation.
The Book (n.) is faced with the same enemies as people: Fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
The Catastrophe (n.) is able to raze a city, but not even open a letter, untie this knotted thread.
Ignorance (n.) is a methodological tool.
The Known (n.) is more to fear than the unknown.
Madness (n.) is relative. A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Magic (n.) is the idea that words were once better understood by things than by men and better understood by the laws and forces of life than by the reasoning mind.