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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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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Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
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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Ambitious Children Instruction Live Order Purpose Reading
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Attack Break Hard Nature Resistance Shake Stupidity
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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Brain Day Finding Hands Head Stay Word
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
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.
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Eat Life Surface Yourself
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste

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