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

Gustave Flaubert

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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
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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Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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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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Ordinary Small Tender
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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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 deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Hope Love Perfume Plant Ruin Time
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering

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