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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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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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Ordinary Small Tender
One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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