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

Gustave Flaubert

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
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Art Clumsy Occasion Ordinary Reveal World
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
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
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
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
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation 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
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
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
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
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
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Blow Chill Love Request

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

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