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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

Gustave Flaubert

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
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
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
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
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
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
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
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
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship 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
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 art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
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

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