Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat 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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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