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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 writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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