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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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