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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
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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Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself
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
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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