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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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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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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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