- A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
- Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
- Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
- There is no truth. There is only perception.
- A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
- I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
- Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
- The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
- Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
- Madame Bovary is myself.
- Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
- One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
- Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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