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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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
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
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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
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
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
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
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
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 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
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering

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