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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

Gustave Flaubert

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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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Art Avoid Count Happiness Rest
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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Blow Chill Love Request
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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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