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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Read in order to live.
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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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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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