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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
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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Human Music Rhythm Speech Stars
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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Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Conclusion Consist Reach Stupidity
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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Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Ordinary Small Tender
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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Challenge Day Feeling Glory Life Moments Promise Rise Success
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Blow Chill Love Request
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work
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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Attack Break Hard Nature Resistance Shake Stupidity
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing

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