The future is the worst thing about the present.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOne mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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Read in order to live.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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