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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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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row 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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Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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