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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

Gustave Flaubert

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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
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
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
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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Eat Life Surface Yourself
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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