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To be simple is no small matter.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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Read in order to live.
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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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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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