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

Gustave Flaubert

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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
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
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
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
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Believe End Inspirational Motivational Oneself Sky Wings
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea 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
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
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
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
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
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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Cry Enjoyment Human Laughter Myself Suffering Thinking
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

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