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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
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
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
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
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
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
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
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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
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
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
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
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
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
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

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