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

Gustave Flaubert

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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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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Brain Day Finding Hands Head Stay Word
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship 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
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
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
One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Existence God Oneself Thinking
One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Acceptance Beautiful Feeling Greatness Society
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 a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Art Clumsy Occasion Ordinary Reveal World
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity

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