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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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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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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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Read in order to live.
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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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