The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI 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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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 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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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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