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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Gustave Flaubert

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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
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
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
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
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
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
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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Ambitious Children Instruction Live Order Purpose Reading

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