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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

Gustave Flaubert

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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing 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 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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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