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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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Blow Chill Love Request
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
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 art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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