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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

Gustave Flaubert

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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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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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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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