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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Gustave Flaubert

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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
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
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
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Hope Love Perfume Plant Ruin Time
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
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
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
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Happiness Life Philosophy Tree Woman
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
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
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
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
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
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal

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