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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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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 can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Read in order to live.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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