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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.

Gustave Flaubert

What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Democracy Dreams Level Raise Stupidity
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
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Believe Death Difficult Feeling Oneself Person
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 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
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
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
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
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
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
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.

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