French - Novelist | August 26, 1880 - November 9, 1918
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.
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When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
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Joy always came after pain.
PainJoyAlwaysAfterCame
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
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I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
LoveMenKnowWantHeartsMost
I hate artists who are not of their time.
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One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.
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