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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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