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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

Gustave Flaubert

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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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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
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Read in order to live.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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