What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Read in order to live.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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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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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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