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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

Gustave Flaubert

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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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Brain Day Finding Hands Head Stay Word
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
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
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
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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Human Music Rhythm Speech Stars
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Attack Break Hard Nature Resistance Shake Stupidity
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time

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