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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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