What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does—that is, fill us with wonderment.
(Letter to Louise Colet, 1853)
Gustave Flaubert
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!
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