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

Gustave Flaubert

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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
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
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
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
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
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
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
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
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

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