Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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