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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Gustave Flaubert

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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Read in order to live.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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