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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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