Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTStupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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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.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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