The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI have dreamed much and have done very little.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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 deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Read in order to live.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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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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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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