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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of 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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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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