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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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