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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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