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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
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
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
Exuberance is better than taste.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
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
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
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Cry Enjoyment Human Laughter Myself Suffering Thinking
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
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
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
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong

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