One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Read in order to live.
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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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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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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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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 hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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