Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTravel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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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 deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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