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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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