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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. – Gustave Flaubert

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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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Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle. – Paulo Coelho

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For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind. – James Payn

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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. – William Ellery Channing

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The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Theres only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, Did you get an erection? If the answer is Yes from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic. – W. H. Auden

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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. – Seamus Heaney

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I never expect to lose. Even when Im the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Wear a smile — one size fits all. – Author Unknown

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