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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
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
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
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
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
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
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
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
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

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