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

Gustave Flaubert

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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Read in order to live.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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