One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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