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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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