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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Gustave Flaubert

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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
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
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Art Clumsy Occasion Ordinary Reveal World
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
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
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Believe Death Difficult Feeling Oneself Person
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
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
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
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
One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Existence God Oneself Thinking
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Happiness Lost Selfish Stupidity
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

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