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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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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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