The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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