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I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports.... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.

Gustave Flaubert
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

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There is no truth. There is only perception.

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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

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