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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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