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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Gustave Flaubert

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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Read in order to live.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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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 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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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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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 must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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