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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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