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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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 heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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