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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Gustave Flaubert

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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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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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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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