The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is no truth. There is only perception.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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