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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTDo not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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