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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

Gustave Flaubert

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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
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
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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
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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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

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