Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAfter a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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