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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Read in order to live.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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