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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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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
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Cry Enjoyment Human Laughter Myself Suffering Thinking
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
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
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
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
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Democracy Dreams Level Raise Stupidity
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
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success

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