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

Gustave Flaubert

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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
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
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
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
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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
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
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Ordinary Small Tender
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

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