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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
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
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
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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 principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
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
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
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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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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