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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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