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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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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 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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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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 spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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