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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Gustave Flaubert

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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
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
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
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Happiness Life Philosophy Tree Woman
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
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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Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Life Order Original Regular Violence Work
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
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
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
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
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

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