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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

Gustave Flaubert

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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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