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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Gustave Flaubert

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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
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
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
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 don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
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
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Art Clumsy Occasion Ordinary Reveal World
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Conclusion Consist Reach Stupidity
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
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Believe End Inspirational Motivational Oneself Sky Wings
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time

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