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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

Gustave Flaubert

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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Happiness Lost Selfish Stupidity
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
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Believe End Inspirational Motivational Oneself Sky Wings
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 can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
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
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
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
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 deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself

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