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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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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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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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