It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAfter a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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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 have dreamed much and have done very little.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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