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I have dreamed much and have done very little.

Gustave Flaubert

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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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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