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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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 believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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