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" One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought! "
Gustave Flaubert
Never
Thought
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" Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature. "
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" The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it. "
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" The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. "
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" The future is the worst thing about the present. "
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" One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. "
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" There is no truth. There is only perception. "
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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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" Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity. "
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" Read much, but not many books. "
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" The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. "
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" I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none. "
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Above
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" The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect. "
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" I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity. "
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" You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. "
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" Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough. "
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" Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work. "
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Words
" I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. "
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Been
Call
" A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. "
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Man
I Am
" A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. "
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Death
Dies
" The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. "
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" It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. "
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Seems
" A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss. "
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Desire
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" I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. "
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Wings
Believe
" But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands. "
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Hands
Always
" The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. "
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Family
Me
" One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes. "
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" As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. "
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" The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. "
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