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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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 deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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