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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Eat Life Surface Yourself
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
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
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
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
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
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
Exuberance is better than taste.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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