One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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