The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
From Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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.
Madame Bovary is myself.
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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