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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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