The author in his book must be like God in his universe, everywhere present and nowhere visible.
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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.Gustave Flaubert
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
Gustave Flaubert
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
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