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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Gustave Flaubert

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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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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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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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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.
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