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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Gustave Flaubert

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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Existence God Oneself Thinking
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
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
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
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
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
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
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
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Eat Life Surface Yourself
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
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
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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