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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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Read in order to live.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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