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- Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar -…
- A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
- But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use…
- In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a…
- The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
- 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.
- There is no truth. There is only perception.
- Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
- One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
- 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…
- For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic…
- God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world
- Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must…
- I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s…
- The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
- You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
- He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain…
- Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?
- Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
- There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.
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