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

Gustave Flaubert

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
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
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
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
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 principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
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
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
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
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
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
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
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves

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