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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

Gustave Flaubert

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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Blow Chill Love Request
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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Current heavy Ideas Strong

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