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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 is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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