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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

Gustave Flaubert

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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Believe End Inspirational Motivational Oneself Sky Wings
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
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
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
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
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
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 future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
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

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