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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Life Order Original Regular Violence Work
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
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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Ambitious Children Instruction Live Order Purpose Reading
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work
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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Brain Day Finding Hands Head Stay Word
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Blow Chill Love Request

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