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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
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
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
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
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Life Order Original Regular Violence Work
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Conclusion Consist Reach Stupidity
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 a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong
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
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
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
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
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Attack Break Hard Nature Resistance Shake Stupidity
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Eat Life Surface 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

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