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There is no truth. There is only perception.

Gustave Flaubert

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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Read in order to live.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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