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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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