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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert

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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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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 public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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