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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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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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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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