On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTRead in order to live.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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