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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
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
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
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
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Better Gratitude History Ignorance King Ordinary Ourselves Person Perspective Time
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
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
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World

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