To be simple is no small matter.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTShe wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Read in order to live.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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