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Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake.
Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Her white arms became my entire horizon

("The Rooster And The Pearl")

The raven of Edgar Allan Poe has a halo that he extinguishes from time to time

("Spanish Generosity")

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

We don't know very well those we love But I understand them fairly well Being all these people myself I who am however but a baboon.

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.