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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Read in order to live.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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