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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

Gustave Flaubert

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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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
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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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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Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
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
Exuberance is better than taste.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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

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