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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul 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
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
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
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
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
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
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 public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal

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