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The future is the worst thing about the present.

Gustave Flaubert

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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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