I have dreamed much and have done very little.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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