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I have dreamed much and have done very little.

Gustave Flaubert

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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
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
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
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
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste

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