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

Gustave Flaubert

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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself
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
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
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
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
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
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
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
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
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
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
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
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality

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