One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTIt’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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 art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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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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