To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Read in order to live.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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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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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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