One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.Gustave Flaubert
I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.
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To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
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What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
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