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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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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. – Gustave Flaubert

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alone
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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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Music
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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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Poetry
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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. – Sam Levenson

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Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness. – Islom Karimov

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Happiness

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them. – Marc Webb

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Happiness

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow. – Frank McCourt

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To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. – Henri Bergson

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It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when Ive gone and come back, Ill find it at home. – Rumi

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Home

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds. – Buddha

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Goodness

When push comes to shove, it aint the science thats going to lift you up-its the belief, the spiritual side of life, thats going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are. – Kirstie Alley

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