"Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance."
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"To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason."
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"May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!"
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"I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all"
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"Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage."
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"And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather aremetaphors."
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"Talent is a long patience."
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"Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe" tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring."
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"One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being."
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"Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?"
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"Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom"
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"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women"
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"Everything is there: the love of Art."
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"I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none."
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"By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men."
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"And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is buring?"
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"If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim."
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"It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols."
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"Art is nothing without form."
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"We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!"
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