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To be simple is no small matter.

Gustave Flaubert

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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.
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Acceptance Beautiful Feeling Greatness Society
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
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
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
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
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
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
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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Brain Day Finding Hands Head Stay Word
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Life Order Original Regular Violence Work
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
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
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
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
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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Human Music Rhythm Speech Stars
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars

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