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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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