It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTStupidity 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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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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