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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Gustave Flaubert

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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Enough Interesting Yourself
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
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
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 heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
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
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Beautiful Creation Hope Writing 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
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Ambitious Children Instruction Live Order Purpose Reading
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Acceptance Beautiful Feeling Greatness Society
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself

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