Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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