"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
-Gustave Flaubert
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"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
-Gustave Flaubert
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"There is no truth. There is only perception."
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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
-Gustave Flaubert
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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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"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
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"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
-J. K. Rowling
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
-Anais Nin
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"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
-Mark Twain
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"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
-Jack Lemon
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"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
-Robert Fulghum
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"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
-Thomas Mann
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