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

Gustave Flaubert

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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Cry Enjoyment Human Laughter Myself Suffering Thinking
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
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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Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
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
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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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Brain Day Finding Hands Head Stay Word
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
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
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
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

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