There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe 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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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