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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Gustave Flaubert

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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Acceptance Beautiful Feeling Greatness Society
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Cry Enjoyment Human Laughter Myself Suffering Thinking
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Happiness Life Philosophy Tree Woman
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
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
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
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting 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
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity

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