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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!

Gustave Flaubert

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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
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Hope Love Perfume Plant Ruin Time
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
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
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work
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
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Happiness Lost Selfish Stupidity
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself

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