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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
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
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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
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
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Ambitious Children Instruction Live Order Purpose Reading
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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 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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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 future is the worst thing about the present.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Democracy Dreams Level Raise Stupidity
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
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
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 principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
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
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
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
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

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