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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

Gustave Flaubert

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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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 is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Ordinary Small Tender
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Believe Death Difficult Feeling Oneself Person
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
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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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Eat Life Surface Yourself
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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