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After 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.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Read in order to live.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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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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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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