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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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