One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTravel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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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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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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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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