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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

Gustave Flaubert

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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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Read in order to live.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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Life 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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing 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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