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| Gustave Flaubert
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. It is a great thing to write. To be no longer yourself, but to move in an entire universe of your own creation. Success . . . is a result, not a goal.The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. |
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