The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTalent is nothing but long patience.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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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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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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