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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
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
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation 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
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
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
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
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
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
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal

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