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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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