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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.

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.
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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
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
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
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing 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
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves
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
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
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
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Blood Life Style Thinking Writing

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