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

Gustave Flaubert

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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
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
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
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
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Life Order Original Regular Violence Work
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 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 wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
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
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
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Acceptance Beautiful Feeling Greatness Society

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