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

Gustave Flaubert

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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
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
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
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
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
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
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
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Cry Enjoyment Human Laughter Myself Suffering Thinking
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself

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