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Gustave Flaubert

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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
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
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
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
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
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
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
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
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

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