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

Gustave Flaubert

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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Read in order to live.
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