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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

Gustave Flaubert

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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Ordinary Small Tender
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Blow Chill Love Request
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
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
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
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
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 spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Morning Myself Removal
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself
The future is the worst thing about the present.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Future Present Worst

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