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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.

Gustave Flaubert

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
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
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Life Order Original Regular Violence Work
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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Human Music Rhythm Speech Stars
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
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
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
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
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
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
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
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Cry Enjoyment Human Laughter Myself Suffering Thinking
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering

She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.

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