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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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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.
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Attack Break Hard Nature Resistance Shake Stupidity
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Believe End Inspirational Motivational Oneself Sky Wings
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong
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
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Blow Chill Love Request
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True

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