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There is no truth. There is only perception.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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