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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Gustave Flaubert

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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to 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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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