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I have dreamed much and have done very little.

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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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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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