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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Gustave Flaubert

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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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