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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.

Gustave Flaubert

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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Hope Love Perfume Plant Ruin Time
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
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
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 public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
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
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality

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