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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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 is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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