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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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 whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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