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

Gustave Flaubert

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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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Democracy Dreams Level Raise Stupidity

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