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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.

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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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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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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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