What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTYou need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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