It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within 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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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