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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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