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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 love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. – 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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Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror. – Chris Bailey

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Some pursue happiness, others create it. – Author Unknown

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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung

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Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. – Alexander Chase, "Perspectives," 1966

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I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think its cool when I fix things around the house. – Ronnie Dunn

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What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. – E. Joseph Cossman

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