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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Ordinary Small Tender
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
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
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
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
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
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight 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
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
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
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time

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