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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Read in order to live.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Believe Death Difficult Feeling Oneself Person
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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Brain Day Finding Hands Head Stay Word
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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