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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

Gustave Flaubert

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
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself
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
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
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
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
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

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