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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

Gustave Flaubert

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 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
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
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
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
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
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
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
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
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
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
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
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

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