The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLife 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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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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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