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

Gustave Flaubert

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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
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
One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Existence God Oneself Thinking
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
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
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Democracy Dreams Level Raise Stupidity
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
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
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
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal 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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Attack Break Hard Nature Resistance Shake Stupidity
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
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
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
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
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Believe Death Difficult Feeling Oneself Person
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
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
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential

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