What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTalent is nothing but long patience.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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