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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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