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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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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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Art Avoid Count Happiness Rest
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
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
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
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
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
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
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
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Acceptance Beautiful Feeling Greatness Society

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