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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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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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Gustave Flaubert
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Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. – Gustave Flaubert

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Nature
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Happiness
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Im actually tougher on myself as I get older. Its a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you cant buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that. – Criss Angel

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Happiness

Im fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes – the finer things of life – would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. – Coretta Scott King

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The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations. – Omar Bongo

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Happiness

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness. – Philip Kaufman

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More than anything else, let me be clear – we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. Thats what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to. – Mike Pence

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I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I dont even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning. – Alice Cooper

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