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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal

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