Talent is nothing but long patience.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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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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