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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

Gustave Flaubert

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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
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
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Life Order Original Regular Violence Work
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight 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
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Ambitious Children Instruction Live Order Purpose Reading
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World

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