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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.

Gustave Flaubert

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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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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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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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