Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTBe regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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Read in order to live.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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