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Talent is nothing but long patience.

Gustave Flaubert

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
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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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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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
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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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