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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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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
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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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
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
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
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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Human Music Rhythm Speech Stars
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral

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