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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOn certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Read in order to live.
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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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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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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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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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