There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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Read in order to live.
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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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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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