“Every bourgeois in the flush of his youth, were it but for a day, a moment, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of lofty enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of sultanas; every notary bears within him the debris of a poet.” – Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (trans. Marx-Aveling)
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Some of us refuse to abandon our delusions of grandeur, and become writers.
petty megalomaniacs, we lords of diminishing domains.