Exuberance is better than taste.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTravel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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 whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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