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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Gustave Flaubert

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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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
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
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

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
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing 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
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Doubt Exhaust Myself
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True

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