One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOne can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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