You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTalent is nothing but long patience.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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