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I have dreamed much and have done very little.

Gustave Flaubert

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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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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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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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