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

Gustave Flaubert

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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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