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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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