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The future is the worst thing about the present.

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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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