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

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Brain Day Finding Hands Head Stay Word
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
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 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
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
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
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Happiness Lost Selfish Stupidity
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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Art Avoid Count Happiness Rest
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work

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