Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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