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

Gustave Flaubert

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
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Happiness Life Philosophy Tree Woman
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
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
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
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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Challenge Day Feeling Glory Life Moments Promise Rise Success
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
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
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
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 principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.

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