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To be simple is no small matter.

Gustave Flaubert

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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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