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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Existence God Oneself Thinking
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
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
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See 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
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live

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