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I have dreamed much and have done very little.

Gustave Flaubert

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
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
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 principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
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
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
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
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
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
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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
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
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself

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