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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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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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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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Read in order to live.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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