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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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 never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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 wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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