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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Gustave Flaubert

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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Read in order to live.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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