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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.

Gustave Flaubert

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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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