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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Gustave Flaubert

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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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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 future is the worst thing about the present.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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Read in order to live.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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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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