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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

Gustave Flaubert

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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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