There is no truth. There is only perception.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTPleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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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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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 deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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