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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Gustave Flaubert

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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
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
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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Art Avoid Count Happiness Rest
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
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
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Hope Love Perfume Plant Ruin Time
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
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
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

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