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

Gustave Flaubert

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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself
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
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
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
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
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 art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
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
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
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
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
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Better Gratitude History Ignorance King Ordinary Ourselves Person Perspective Time

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