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I have dreamed much and have done very little.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Current heavy Ideas Strong
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
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
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 art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Hope Love Perfume Plant Ruin Time
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Blow Chill Love Request
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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Human Music Rhythm Speech Stars
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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Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
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
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself

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