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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.

Gustave Flaubert

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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within 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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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Read in order to live.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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