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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Gustave Flaubert

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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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 future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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