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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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