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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
One mustnt ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for

One mustnt ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. – Gustave Flaubert

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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. – Hugo Black

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Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money. – Neil Simon

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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. – George Sand

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Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness. – Merrill Markoe

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