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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

Gustave Flaubert

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
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
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
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
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
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
One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Existence God Oneself Thinking
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Eat Life Surface Yourself
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
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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Challenge Day Feeling Glory Life Moments Promise Rise Success
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
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

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