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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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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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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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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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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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