Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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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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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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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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