Read in order to live.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOf all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to 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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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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