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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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