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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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