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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTSuccess 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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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