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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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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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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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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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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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