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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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