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

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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
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
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
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
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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

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