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

Gustave Flaubert

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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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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 an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Eat Life Surface Yourself
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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

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