We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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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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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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