What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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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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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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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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