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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert

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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 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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Read in order to live.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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