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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Gustave Flaubert

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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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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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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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