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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
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
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
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
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
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
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
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
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
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Attack Break Hard Nature Resistance Shake Stupidity
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True

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