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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
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
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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
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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
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
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
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
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
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
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

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