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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Read in order to live.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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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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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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