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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
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
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
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
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
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
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
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
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
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Happiness Life Philosophy Tree Woman
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself

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