Talent is nothing but long patience.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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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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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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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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