The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTalent is nothing but long patience.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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