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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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