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

Author: Gustave Flaubert

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Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction. No read in order to live.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

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

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius is above all force.

My heart never knew loneliness until you went away.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.