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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTBe regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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