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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

Gustave Flaubert

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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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