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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
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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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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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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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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