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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

Gustave Flaubert

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
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
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
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
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Believe Death Difficult Feeling Oneself Person
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
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
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
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
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 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
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Hope Love Perfume Plant Ruin Time
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True

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