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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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