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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

Gustave Flaubert

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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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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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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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