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To be simple is no small matter.

Gustave Flaubert

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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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