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There is no truth. There is only perception.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
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
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
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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Better Gratitude History Ignorance King Ordinary Ourselves Person Perspective Time
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
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
It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
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
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success

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