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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Happiness Life Philosophy Tree Woman
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Believe Death Difficult Feeling Oneself Person
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
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
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
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
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
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
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
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work

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