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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

Gustave Flaubert

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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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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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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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