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

Gustave Flaubert

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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
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
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
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
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
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
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
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
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
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Hope Love Perfume Plant Ruin Time
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
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
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself

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