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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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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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Read in order to live.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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