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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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