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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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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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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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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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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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