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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

Gustave Flaubert

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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
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
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
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
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
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
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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
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
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
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
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
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
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
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
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
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself

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