Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLife is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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