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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Gustave Flaubert

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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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