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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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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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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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