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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!

Gustave Flaubert

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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Happiness Life Philosophy Tree Woman
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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Brain Day Finding Hands Head Stay Word
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Conclusion Consist Reach Stupidity
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Ordinary Small Tender
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Happiness Lost Selfish Stupidity
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing

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