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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

Gustave Flaubert

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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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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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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing 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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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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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