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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
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
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
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 deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
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
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
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

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