What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEarth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Read in order to live.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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