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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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