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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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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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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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