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

Gustave Flaubert

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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
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
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
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
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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Human Music Rhythm Speech Stars
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
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
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
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
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
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
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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Better Gratitude History Ignorance King Ordinary Ourselves Person Perspective Time

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