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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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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 whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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