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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Read in order to live.
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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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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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