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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Gustave Flaubert

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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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 spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Ambitious Children Instruction Live Order Purpose Reading
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself

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