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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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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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