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

Gustave Flaubert

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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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
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
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
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
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
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
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Attack Break Hard Nature Resistance Shake Stupidity
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Blow Chill Love Request
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
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
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Hope Love Perfume Plant Ruin Time
You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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Brain Day Finding Hands Head Stay Word
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
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
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
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True

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