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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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