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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
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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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
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
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Democracy Dreams Level Raise Stupidity
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
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
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World

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