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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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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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