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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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 whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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