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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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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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