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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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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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 public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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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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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Ordinary Small Tender

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