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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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