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

Gustave Flaubert

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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
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
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Ambitious Children Instruction Live Order Purpose Reading
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
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
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
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
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
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
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
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
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
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
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
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
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself
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
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Blow Chill Love Request
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach

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