Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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