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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Gustave Flaubert

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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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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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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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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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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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