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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

Gustave Flaubert

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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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