Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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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 deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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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. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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