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There is no truth. There is only perception.

Gustave Flaubert

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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 heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
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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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
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
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
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship

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