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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Read in order to live.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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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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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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