The future is the worst thing about the present.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe 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.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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