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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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