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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms 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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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