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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself

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