There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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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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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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