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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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