I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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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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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 no truth. There is only perception.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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