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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
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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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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Read in order to live.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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