To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTalent is nothing but long patience.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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