Today is a good day for you. ... I congratulate you! ... It's better to knock it all down and strew the ground with salt, as the ancients did, to purify their battlefields. ... What we really need is some hygiene, some cleanliness, some disinfection. ... Anyone who deserves to be called an artist should be asked to make this single act of faith: to educate oneself to silence. Do you remember Mallarmé's praise of the blank page? And Rimbaud ... do you know what his finest poetry was? His refusal to continue writing and his departure for Africa. ... Nothingness is the real perfection.
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