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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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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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