A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTalent is nothing but long patience.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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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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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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