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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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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live

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