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

Gustave Flaubert

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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
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
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Conclusion Consist Reach Stupidity
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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
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 is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
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
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
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

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