The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Read in order to live.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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