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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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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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