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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Gustave Flaubert

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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
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
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Believe Death Difficult Feeling Oneself Person
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
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
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Better Gratitude History Ignorance King Ordinary Ourselves Person Perspective Time
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
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
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing

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