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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

Gustave Flaubert

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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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