I have dreamed much and have done very little.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTBe regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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 is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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