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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
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
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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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Ordinary Small Tender
Read in order to live.
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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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Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
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
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
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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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
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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