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To be simple is no small matter.

Gustave Flaubert

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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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