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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

Gustave Flaubert

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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
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
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
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
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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Ambitious Children Instruction Live Order Purpose Reading
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
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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