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.
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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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