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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
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
One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Acceptance Beautiful Feeling Greatness Society
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
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
It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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Human Music Rhythm Speech Stars
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
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
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time

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