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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
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Life Particle Poetry
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Hope Love Perfume Plant Ruin Time
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
Read in order to live.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
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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Brain Day Finding Hands Head Stay Word
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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