The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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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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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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