Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLove is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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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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