The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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