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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Democracy Dreams Level Raise Stupidity
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
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
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
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
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
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
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself
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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Cry Enjoyment Human Laughter Myself Suffering Thinking
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Blow Chill Love Request
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Art Clumsy Occasion Ordinary Reveal World
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself

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