Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.Gustave Flaubert
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
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Success is a result, not a goal.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
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Madame Bovary is myself.
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