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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
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
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
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
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work
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
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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Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
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
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 friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
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
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
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
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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

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