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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Gustave Flaubert

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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Democracy Dreams Level Raise Stupidity
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 must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves
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
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
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
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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
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.
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Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship

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