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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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