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

Gustave Flaubert

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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
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
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 glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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Challenge Day Feeling Glory Life Moments Promise Rise Success
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
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself 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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
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
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

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