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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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