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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

Gustave Flaubert

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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
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
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
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
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
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
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight 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
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
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
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
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent

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