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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

Gustave Flaubert

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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
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
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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Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Believe End Inspirational Motivational Oneself Sky Wings
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
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
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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Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves
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
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
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
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality

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