Exuberance is better than taste.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTo be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Read in order to live.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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