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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
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
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
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
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
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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