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

Gustave Flaubert

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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Level Life Sea Writing
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
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
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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Challenge Day Feeling Glory Life Moments Promise Rise Success
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
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
It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Country Death Herself Live
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
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
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
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Beautiful Creation Hope Writing 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
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
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Conclusion Consist Reach Stupidity
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality

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