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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

Gustave Flaubert

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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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