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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Gustave Flaubert

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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
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
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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
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.
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Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
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
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach

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