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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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Human Music Rhythm Speech Stars
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
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
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
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
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
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
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
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Blow Chill Love Request

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