The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
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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.Gustave Flaubert
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
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. . . human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.
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Madame Bovary is myself.
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