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There is no truth. There is only perception.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to 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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Ordinary Small Tender
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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The 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 whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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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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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Eat Life Surface Yourself
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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