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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
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Existence God Oneself Thinking
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
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 writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Better Gratitude History Ignorance King Ordinary Ourselves Person Perspective Time
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars

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