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To be simple is no small matter.

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
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Attack Break Hard Nature Resistance Shake Stupidity
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
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
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
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
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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Challenge Day Feeling Glory Life Moments Promise Rise Success
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
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
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
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

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