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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Read in order to live.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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