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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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Current heavy Ideas Strong
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
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
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
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
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
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Happiness Lost Selfish Stupidity
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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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