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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
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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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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