I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
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Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
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