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

Gustave Flaubert

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
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
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 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
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
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
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
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Ordinary Small Tender
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
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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Challenge Day Feeling Glory Life Moments Promise Rise Success
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

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

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