Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
From Gustave Flaubert
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
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