"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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"The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.“
-Gustave Flaubert
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"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
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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."
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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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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
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"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."
-Lao Tzu
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