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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

Gustave Flaubert

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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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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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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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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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Beautiful Moral
To be simple is no small matter.
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