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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Conclusion Consist Reach Stupidity
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
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
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
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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Human Music Rhythm Speech Stars
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
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
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World

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