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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Gustave Flaubert

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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
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
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
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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Art Avoid Count Happiness Rest
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
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
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 deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
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
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

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