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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert

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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
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
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
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
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Believe Death Difficult Feeling Oneself Person
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
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
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
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
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth

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