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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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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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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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