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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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