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

Gustave Flaubert

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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
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
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 an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Eat Life Surface Yourself
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
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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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
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
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 have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars

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