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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

Gustave Flaubert

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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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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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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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