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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Gustave Flaubert

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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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