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

Gustave Flaubert

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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
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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Blow Chill Love Request
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
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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
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
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
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
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
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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To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
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

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