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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

Gustave Flaubert

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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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