On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAfter 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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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