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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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