The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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 principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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