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

Gustave Flaubert

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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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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Read in order to live.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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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 must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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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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