Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLove is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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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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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Read in order to live.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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