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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
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
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
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
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
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
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
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
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
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
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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