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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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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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Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Conclusion Consist Reach Stupidity
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
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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 principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
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
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
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal

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