What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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