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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Gustave Flaubert

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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Read in order to live.
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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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