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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle 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
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Cry Enjoyment Human Laughter Myself Suffering Thinking
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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Art Avoid Count Happiness Rest
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
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
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
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
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 spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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

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