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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

Gustave Flaubert

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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
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 principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
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
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
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
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
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Attack Break Hard Nature Resistance Shake Stupidity
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Conclusion Consist Reach Stupidity

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