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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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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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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 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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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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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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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