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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
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
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
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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
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
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
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
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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Better Gratitude History Ignorance King Ordinary Ourselves Person Perspective Time
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself

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