One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
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My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing worlds, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called Science.Gustave Flaubert
Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless And they stay in the desert Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.
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Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
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The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
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