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

Gustave Flaubert

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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
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
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
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
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
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
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
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Happiness Life Philosophy Tree Woman
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
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
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

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